raider
Americannoun
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a person or thing that raids.
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a commando, ranger, or the like, specially trained to participate in military raids.
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a light, fast warship, aircraft, etc., used in such a raid.
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a person who seizes control of a company, as by secretly buying stock and gathering proxies.
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Informal. a person who works within an organization for the purpose of gathering evidence of wrongdoing.
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Chadwick had learned the activism ropes at Relational Investors, where he worked with longtime rabble-rousers Ralph Whitworth and David Batchelder, who themselves had worked with the corporate raider T. Boone Pickens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
"He's a raider, not a builder," says Naples journalist Vincenzo Credendino.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Points are earned by tagging opponents, or by stopping the raider.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
“The Grave Dancer” became a successful corporate raider, taking over radio stations, trailer parks, barges, wire and cable factories and garbage-fueled power plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
And Lazlo was surprised by the strength of his gratitude—to be believed, even by a tomb raider from a family of assassins.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
In one foray, led by Miller, the small party of raiders was ambushed by 80 Spanish troops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
When corporate raiders took notice of how much revenue medicine generated, it took them a New York minute to invade the marketplace.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
Turkish and Turkmen raiders had swept down out of the mountains a couple of years before.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
After all, it said: "It is a little unusual for raiders to come up through the floor."
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
The idea that someone should have been feeding them seemed to dawn on the Bedouin raiders all at once.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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